The 20 best films of 2024
Our choice of the year’s essential screen entertainment.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
Explore the world of cinema with our selection of film reviews, providing in-depth analysis, thoughtful critiques, and captivating insights into the latest releases and timeless classics.
Our choice of the year’s essential screen entertainment.
ByDaniel Craig is cast against type in this stylish adaptation of William Burroughs’ novel. Plus: Nightbitch and We Live in…
ByThe documentary Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes searches for new insights into the actor’s life in his five closest female…
ByRalph Fiennes gives an all-time best performance in this sumptuous, thrilling drama about appointing a new pope.
ByThe origin story of The Wizard of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West arrives two decades after the stage show.…
ByIn this sequel, chock-full of fighting, Ridley Scott lets his appetite for elaborate action scenes run wild.
ByIn this third instalment, the bear travels “home” – and the franchise’s feel-good, pro-immigration spirit vanishes.
ByThe screenwriter of the scathing biopic The Apprentice on provoking the wrath of the former president.
ByThe actor, now firmly in his villain era, is tremendous fun in this preposterous horror.
BySteve McQueen’s new film suggests the Second World War was not simply a time of uncomplicated national unity.
ByThe Room Next Door resolves the Spanish director’s struggle between black comedy and bookish melodrama.
ByDoes this Netflix film have anything to say? It’s not clear what its parade of tragedy can tell us.
ByYou may think you never want to see a film about Donald Trump. But this tale of his relationship with…
ByThis “reincarnation spoof” sees a woman endure the same horrors lifetime after lifetime. Sadly, it’s also painful viewing.
ByThe script of Megalopolis is unspeakable, its tone baffling and its world makes no sense.
ByAlicia Vikander and Jude Law excel in this retelling of Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine Parr.
ByThe film stars former inmates playing themselves as they stage a performance on the inside.
ByThis is just the latest in a succession of self-congratulatory, syrupy brand movies.
ByThis revelatory film follows two soldiers in Afghanistan during the country’s regime change.
ByThis Turkish film is deeply challenging, even boring at times. But it is pretty much a masterpiece.
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